Wii wbfs formst

[angelobodetti]

Are any of you using wbfs files for Wii in dolphin? I have a huge set of them and am wondering if I should leave as is or convert to ISO 

[DOS76]

I'm pretty sure they work just fine in that format

 

[angelobodetti]

Thanks. I tested the very first game 007 - Quantom of  Solace abd it ran at 1fps. 

But then I tried WWE 12 and that worked. 

So not sure if it's a bad dump or just a game that isn't compatible. 

Many chance you have that game and it works?

[SentaiBrad]

Yes, they work just fine in the format. I have all of mine in WBFS (manually converted) for my real Wii / U, and they work just fine in Dolphin. It could be that a few games have performance issues because they don't like being in the container, but as far as I know that's not a problem.

[kmoney]

I agree as wbfs format is the way to go.

[angelobodetti]

great - mine came with a bunch of txt files and weird names.

Im assuming i don't need the txt files and i can name the wbfs whatever i want?

[SentaiBrad]

Yes and yes.

[totoro]

This is an old thread, but maybe someone will read this and I don´t want to start a new topic immediately:

At least for GC/Wii-Games, RVZ seems to be the new, "best" format for saving disc space while preserving the original file structure.

https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Save_Disk_Space_for_ISOs#RVZ_.28Modern_Dolphin_format.29_-_GC.2FWii

I´ve started to compress all disc-based systems - where possible - to CHD now, which doesn´t apply to GC/Wii yet.

Well, I´m going for my Dolphin-Games now and want to make things right: Problem is, every Wii-Game I have is in wbfs-format, I´m talking about roundabout 200 Games.

So... unfortunately you can`t convert wbfs to rvz on the fly in dolphin as is supports iso-convertion only.

I´m planning to use this tool to convert wbfs to iso...

http://www.wbfstoiso.com/

...then back to rvz in Dolphin.

Again: I want do make this right - will this work or corrupt my games in the process? I mean, wbfs-Files are scrubbed, so I don´t know how it will affect the games in the crazy amount of convertion steps (first iso to wbfs, back from wbfs to iso, back from iso to rvz...lol). Did anyone take this journey already?

Another question: I´ve configured every Wii-Game - where necessary - via dolphin wiki, so there are lots of custom configs in my setup. Will these apply to rvz-formatted games as well or do I have to reconfigure all over again?

[JoeViking245]

2 hours ago, totoro said:

Another question: I´ve configured every Wii-Game - where necessary - via dolphin wiki, so there are lots of custom configs in my setup. Will these apply to rvz-formatted games as well or do I have to reconfigure all over again?

I'm not sure about the conversion part. It was quite a while ago when I did mine and I only have 13.    Just make a copy of 2 or 3 of your games and test on those. I suspect you won't have any problems though.

As far as the configurations, I'm pretty sure Dolphin reads the game's ID from inside the file, regardless of compression format (or none).  So Mario Kart Wii, in whatever format (wbfs, iso, rvz...) will always be read as "RMCE01".  And that is also how the configurations are saved and then associated to the rom. 

[totoro]

Thanks for your reply! Everything worked out just fine. I just used Wii-Backup-Manager for wbfs2iso, after that conversion worked as espected in Dolphin and everything seems to run just fine with my preconfigured hacks, patches, texture packs intact.